The River Prophet (Esprios Classics)

Raymond Smiley Spears (1876-1950) was an author of western and adventure stories. He was born in Belleview, Ohio in 1876. The son of John Randolph Spears (1850-1936), a naval historian and Celestia Colette Smiley Spears, a teacher. Raymond was educated in Philadelphia, NY. A move to the Adirondack Mountains to recuperate from a throat ailment lead to a great love of the outdoors. Raymond eventually moved to New York City to work as a reporter for the New York Sun. He worked there for five years before moving back to the countryside and doing freelance reporting. He took several cross-country trips and wrote about them in Forest and Stream. These trips provided the background information for many of his fiction and non-fiction writings.

• | Author: Raymond S Spears
• | Publisher: Blurb
• | Publication Date: January 20, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1034152726
• | ISBN-13: 9781034152729